Where government is impossible, politics is impossible. - Bernard Crick

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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

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Sir Bernard Rowland Crick (16 December 1929 – 19 December 2008) was a British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views were often summarised as "politics is ethics done in public". He sought to arrive at a "politics of action", as opposed to a "politics of thought" or of ideology.

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Alternative Names: Sir Bernard Rowland Crick • Bernard Rowland Crick • Bernard R. Crick
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One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.
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